Familiar Desires: 5 (Protective Affairs) Read Free Page A

of both witch and shifter, as well as bringing those people
together. Some Familiar ties were strong and some weak. Some led to a mating,
others didn’t.
    On top of that, a witch or wizard didn’t form an immediate
connection, not even with a witch-mate. The witch-mate bond took time and
proximity to form. In most cases, the witch-mate connection built between two
people. Male twin wizards were the exception. When twins found their
witch-mate, both men discovered that link with the same woman, forming a triad.
    Michael and Kane hadn’t seemed to want to discover if she
was their witch-mate. Even though there was every possibility she was because
of the strength of their Familiar link.
    If a witch or wizard wanted to date someone else, they could
do that. Many witches married someone who wasn’t their witch-mate. Alana had
known herself well enough to realize she couldn’t stand back and watch while
Michael and Kane dated someone else, especially after her reaction to seeing
Kane with that woman in the restaurant. She couldn’t be their Familiar if she
had to stay away from them. So she’d decided to break the tie so they might be
able to form another Familiar bond.
    “Yes, it was cut, but the ability to link is still there and
always will be. Even being in the same city will reestablish it with enough
time. They could have done something like what your witch did and later formed
another connection, but it would never be as strong as the one they have with
you and you would have never been able to be in the same area together again.
It’s why it’s not done.”
    Alana took a step back and tried not to scream. The Familiar
connection reforming would be a distraction she didn’t need. She hadn’t felt
even a trace of their magic since the witch had done the spell. Well, other
than the fact that she still had the abilities she’d gained through binding
with them. She’d never been able to discover why that remained. She knew the Council
would lie about this without giving it another thought. The only problem was
she couldn’t see what they’d gain from the deception.
    None of them had wanted her to leave the area, her family
included. They’d said to wait and see. At the time, her decision had seemed so
clear to her. The only way for her to go. She knew what she’d seen and she knew
what the letter had said. The fact that one of them meant to marry a woman
without the other had surprised her. As far as she knew, that had never
happened in any wizard twins who were part of the group of witches who took
Familiars. It hadn’t changed her mind though.
    Alana remembered being so angry and hurt. She hadn’t waited
for an announcement that one of them was to marry. She knew she couldn’t do
that. Both of those men were her mates, as well as her wizards. She couldn’t
stand by and let some other woman touch them without wanting to tear the other
woman apart.
    The physical and mental effects of their magic joining with
her had nearly made her crazy. She was almost certain they experienced the same
thing. The tingles, almost as if she touched a mild, live electrical current,
had rippled over her skin constantly. Any thought of them increased the
sensation and the urge to be near them. When she’d left Devoe, the feeling had
intensified. She’d only seen two choices—go back or find a way to break the tie
between them.
    If they hadn’t been her mates and the binding between them
hadn’t been so strong, maybe she could have stayed and waited to see what would
happen. That wasn’t the case though. They were her mates and the binding
between them was very strong, very sexual and she wouldn’t share.
    She’d rather have nothing of them than make do with whatever
bits they reluctantly gave her. It was why she hadn’t been home for more than a
handful of brief visits in nearly nine years. Her mother had been thrilled when
Kane had apparently changed his mind about marrying the witch and had called to
tell her they